ESD.04J Frameworks and Models in Engineering Systems / Engineering System Design (MIT) This class provides an introduction to quantitative models and qualitative frameworks for studying complex engineering systems. Also taught is the art of abstracting a complex system into a model for purposes of analysis and design while dealing with complexity, emergent behavior, stochasticity, non-linearities and the requirements of many stakeholders with divergent objectives. The successful completion of the class requires a semester-long class project that deals with critical contemporary isAuthor(s): Sussman, Joseph

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Animation Mondays - Rewind Welcome to Animation Mondays! If you're an animation fan or creator this is the series for you. Each Monday our graduate student hosts will be introducing you to the amazing world of animation - how works were created, different techniques used and more. In this episode, Digital Media graduate Regine Clarke introduces us to a beautifully realised piece on the passing of time. "Rewind" is a special project for Regine, as she wrote and narrated the poem that forms the backbone of this animation.
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12.S56 GPS: Where Are You? (MIT) This is a freshman advising seminar. The professor of a FAS is the first year advisor to the (no more than 8) students in the seminar.
The use of Global Positioning System (GPS) in a wide variety of applications has exploded in the last few years. In this seminar we explore how positions on the Earth were determined before GPS; how GPS itself works and the range of applications in which GPS is now a critical element. This seminar is followed by a UROP research project in the spring semester wherAuthor(s): Herring, Thomas

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El Storyboard y el Animatic en la Ense?anza del Proyecto de Arquitectura [Storyboarding and Animatic This paper discusses the issues involved with the introduction of the storyboard and the animatic in a design studio exercise. Storyboards - sketches used in film planning -, and the animatic - basically a moving storyboard - allow the student to understand space within in the context of a narrative. The purpose of the exercise was to enable the expression of subjectively experienced space in an early stage of urban context analysis. Differently than the traditional approach to animation which rAuthor(s): Aroztegui Massera, Carmen; Rodrigo Garc?a Alvarado

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Caistor dig A skeleton, found in September 2009 at one of the most important, but least understood, Roman sites in Britain is puzzling experts from The University of Nottingham.
Dr Will Bowden from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Nottingham and leader of excavations at the buried town of Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk and is interviewed in this video on site at the dig.
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Explosions rock Aden arms depot Explosions rock Aden's largest arms depot, sending smoke into the sky above the southern Yemeni city. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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